automate

Automated web browser?

Hi, For learning purposes I would like to automate some parts in a browser game, currently I am trying to fill out some simple text boxes, without any luck though. I've created a WebBrowser component on my form, loaded the website via it and tried this. webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("citizen_name").SetAttribute("", "myname"); W...

Programming language to automatically navigate website?

Hi, I've been programming for many years now, and I have just one question. What programming language allows you to create programs which can automatically navigate websites and perform various actions? For example, logging in, browse to a specific page, fill out forms, extract certain text and so on. This is different to a macro as a ...

Updating a database from an Excel speadsheet in .NET

Can Teradata tables be updated in an VB.NET application by reading an Excel spreadsheet and pulling certain values from certain columns? If so how? Thanks ...

Automate Java installs on Unix

I'm currently working on self bootstrapping/configuring deployments for J2EE applications. My goal is to have the deployment install Java, App Server, and app deployment every time. Unfortunately I'm running into problems automating the java install. The java install is provided as a self-extracting binary (ie. jre-6u18-solaris-sparc.sh...

Download file over HTTPS using .NET (part 2)

On a regular basis I have to do the following manually in a web browser: Go to an https website. Logon on a webform. Click a link to download a large file (135MB). I would like to automate this process using .NET. Some days ago I posted this question here. Thanks to a piece of code by Rubens Farias I am now able to perform the above...

Automate file download from http using python

I want to automatically save a file from a website. I don't know how to bypass the Download File prompt in python and save it directly to my c: drive. Any help is appreciated, Elliott ...

WebBrowser control HTMLDocument automate selecting option drop-down

I'm trying to automate in a WinForm using a WebBrowser control to navigate and pull report info from a website. You can enter values in textboxes and invoke the click events for buttons and links, but I have not figured out how select a option drop-down .... in a automated way. Anybody recommend how to select a item from a drop-down, giv...

jQuery - How to animate click function without clicking (Slide-show like) - Is this possible?

Hello, I have created a jQuery script (with help) that works great however I need it to automate/animate itself without using the click function, I just want to know is this possible and if so, how? Similar to a slide-show. Basically the code allows me to click on an image and hide/show a DIV, while changing a list of elements such as c...

Automate Google Chrome extension installation

Hi everyone, I am working on creating a Google Chrome extension. We have it included in an automated build system and since it is constantly being worked on we need a solution to be able to package the extension as a .crx file which according to http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/packaging.html can easily be scripted. My question...

jQuery - Need help stopping animation on click command.

With a few of your help I was able to get the jquery I wanted to work flawlessly, except for one thing.. the animation doesn't stop when i click on the buttons. Scenario: I have an Image, and 3 buttons underneath labeled "1","2", and "3". The jquery will automate the click function every 4500ms and switch from 1 to 2, then 2 to 3 and co...

Automatic e-mail processing

I'd like to write a .NET application in F# to automate some of the processing of my e-mails. For example, when an order comes in my program might compute a new htpasswd from the e-mail's contents, upload it to our web server and reply to the customer with login details. How do people do this? I've tried Outlook 2007 automation but it ju...

running same query in different databases

I wrote a query that I want to run in several access databases. I have 1000+ access databases with the same tables (same names, same fields). So far, I have been manually copying this query from a txt file to the sql view in the access query design screen for each database and then run it. I did not need to change the query language - ev...

How Do I Use jQuery/JavaScript To Open A Popup Window/Tab (ASPX Login Page) & Then Pass Values To Opened Window/Tab On DOM Ready Event of Said Window/Tab.

Hi All, We currently have two asp.net 2.x web applications and we need to perform the following functionality: From one application, we want to auto-login to the other web application automatically in a new tab; using the same browser instance/window. So the process is: Open New Window/Tab With Second System URL/Login Page Wait For P...

Testing install procedure of a program requiring administrative privileges

I'm trying to write automated test, to ensure that the installer for my program works okay. The program can be installed for all users (requires admin privs), or for current user (does not require admin privs). The program can also autoupdate itself, which in some cases requires admin privileges, and in some cases doesn't. I'm looking...

Automate Field Entry in outside site

I am attempting to automate the entry of data into form fields. The problem is that this data (user/pass) is not known by the user. I'm not expressly hiding it from them, but they also don't need to know it. This is used to automate logins on several of our outside partner websites, who do not want our agents knowing their passwords. Sa...

Automatic Deployment of Windows Application

Hi, We have setup continuos integration in our development environment using SVN, CC.Net, MSBuild and Nunit. Now, we want to automate the process of moving (copying) builds from one stage to another like this: Whenever a new build succeeds in Dev, that should be copied automatically to the QA server (a folder on the QA server, to b...

How can you remove a field from a word document?

Dear reader, I'm working on a project where the user can insert data into a document using fields, document properties and variables. The user also needs to be able to remove the data from the document. So far, I've managed to remove the document property and variable, but I'm not sure how I would go about removing the field (that's alr...

Preventing Spam

How do you stop bots on a page which is accessible to registered users only? 90% page is accessed by real users and 10% are bot. I do not want to put captcha or verification method on the page because I know that my users wont like this and they lazy also. Please share your ideas Edit I want to make this question more clear Registr...

splunk, wily introscope, cacti reports at one place

Hi i run performance testing in my company, but i want to automate the report generation in such a way that i can get reports from splunk, wily introscope and cacti to my email once the testing is completed, any suggestions how i can proceed ? No one has suggestions :( ...

Automate a click of javascript link and fetch the resulting page

Hi all, I searched a lot but could not find a solution for my question. It is quite simple as I think. I opened a web page by providing some parameters, such as id=123456. The searched result page then contains a link to something like javascript:doSomething('ABC','ID'=123456). What I would like to know, is whether there is a program,...